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British Airways Black Friday £1,008 Club World tickets and £99 short breaks

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British Airways has launched its Black Friday deals – and they are pretty good.  How does a £1008 Club World trip sound?

These deals can be found on the special BA Black Friday page here.  They are bookable until midnight on Monday.

Club World for £1,008 per person

BA is offering Club World tickets for the exceptionally cheap price of £1,008 per person to the following destinations:

British Airways £1008 £2016 Club World

  • Atlanta
  • Boston
  • Baltimore
  • Chicago
  • New York (Newark and JFK)
  • Philadelphia
  • Washington
  • Abu Dhabi
  • Dubai
  • Muscat

North American destination require outbound travel (return when you like) between 18th December and 2nd January.

Middle East routes require outbound travel between 5 June and 15 June 2017.  This is in the middle of Ramadan so you will find some hotels operating reduced facilities during the day.

£1,008 return is based on two or more people travelling.  Solo travellers will pay £1,208.  This seems a bit odd but I don’t make the rules.

Connections from selected regional and Irish airports are FREE.  These are Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Belfast City and Dublin.

This offer only runs until midnight on Monday 28th November.  Seats are limited, however, so I would book ASAP if you are interested.

The BA Black Friday site is here.  You must book these tickets on ba.com here.

£99 per person BA Holidays deals

Whilst potentially less headline-grabbing than £1,008 Club World tickets, these BA Holidays deals may also be worth a look.

These flights are all Euro Traveller / Economy.

The following deals will be bookable via the BA Holidays website here from £99 per person for hotel AND flights:

Barcelona – two nights at the 2* Lami, travelling November 1 – March 31

Venice – two nights at the 3* Centrale Hotel (Mestre), travelling November 2 – March 29

Rome – two nights at the 4* Cristoforo Colombo, travelling November 22 – January 31

Nice – two nights at the 3* Comfort Suites Cannes Mandelieu, travelling November 24 – December 14

Jersey – two nights at the 4* Golden Sands, travelling January 22 – February 8

Krakow – two nights at the 3* Eden, travelling January 17 – March 13

Malaga – two nights at the 3* Adriano, travelling November 20 – December 14

Alicante – two nights at the 3* Best Western Albahia, travelling December 8 – January 27

Naples / Sorrento – two nights at the 3* Joyfull, travelling January 13 – March 12

Turin – two nights at the 4* Diplomatic, travelling January 4 – January 15

Edinburgh – two nights at the 3* Murrayfield Hotel & Lodge, travelling January 8 – January 31 and departing Gatwick

As there are a limited number of rooms at these properties, I would book sooner rather than later.  Other deals may also have been loaded – I recommend having a poke around the BA Holidays website here and seeing what you can find.

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  • Mialtb says:
    24 Nov24 November 10:43

    Will be spending time to get a good deal and take advantage of the Amex £100 offer that expires today. Any idea if I can part pay with Avios for the BA Holiday or Flight+Hotel/Car option?

  • Leezat says:
    24 Nov24 November 11:31

    This is really disappointing after last year, which was great.

    Other than a more restricted list of destinations the avios redemption is pretty poor. 2015 deal was 30,000 avios for £700 off a CW fare, getting it as low as £500 for CW flights to India.

  • Daz says:
    24 Nov24 November 12:00

    What a load of Pants!! Roll on the QR sale next year.

  • Mirp says:
    24 Nov24 November 12:11

    I also find this sale disappointing after the great deals to India last year.

  • Nick says:
    24 Nov24 November 12:31

    Just booked after my comments about Prg etc. Got Brussels Sofitel Europe me, Mrs and 3 year old son for two nights in a luxury room including club Europe for £646 between Xmas and new year break. Minus my £100 targeted offer so £546…thanks very much BA I’ll take your offer of £40 extra on the package for CE as well!

    Daft prices….the flights alone are allegedly £1800!

    • Mialtb says:
      24 Nov24 November 12:34

      How did you manage to get Madeira for £90pp? Thanks.

      • Nick says:
        24 Nov24 November 12:44

        See my earlier post just replied to someone else, I’ve got no idea it was available yesterday morning seen it for several days now. I’ll have another look and post back.

        • Nick says:
          24 Nov24 November 12:53

          Bugger now £585….it was available departing LGW return via LIS to LHR on 28th Dec maybe try and play around see what else you can find?

          • Jtz says:
            24 Nov24 November 13:16

            Tried playing around with dates and different places too, nowhere near that price for holiday dates, 18 Dec shows some OK prices but no time off!

          • Mialtb says:
            24 Nov24 November 14:11

            Thanks Nick, will give it a go.

      • idrive says:
        24 Nov24 November 14:13

        When you write about these quotes, by the way, are you just selecting flight+hotels? is that the average price for two people? If I travel alone, I may never get to that pricing, do you agree?

        • Nick says:
          24 Nov24 November 14:32

          Use the BA holiday finder it’s the most accurate I find then you can see the whole range of countries son certain dates or flight class

        • Fenny says:
          24 Nov24 November 18:14

          Single travellers have to bear the total cost of a room, so will never hit the pp price quoted for 2 sharing.

      • Nick says:
        24 Nov24 November 16:43

        Yes they are im afraid I now find adding on a 3 year old doesn’t break the bank sometimes then again it can be extortionate. When I check the details I usually find some rooms can only accommodate two people so the systems selects two rooms plus flights….got to be careful but I guess with a package you need a ‘partner’ to make the deal worl

    • Simmo says:
      24 Nov24 November 13:00

      Just booked Warsaw for 2 Y flights and 2 nights in the 5* Marriott for £150 a person.
      Flights were over £350 a person..

  • Adrian says:
    24 Nov24 November 12:36

    Rob, do you know if there is more to come (destinations, wider date ranges etc.) or if this is it?
    The headline price sounds fantastic, but that said the actual substance of the offer is underwhelming, especially if there isn’t more to come!

    Are we to expect Finnair and Qatar sales too?

    Thank you Adrian

  • Mike says:
    24 Nov24 November 12:40

    Found Prague on 3 January for £101 x 3 nights. Impressive, however, shocking flight times, first day gone due to very late arrival. Proceeded to add the domestic leg, another £100 for that then changed the flights, add another £103 = disappointed but not surprised.

    • Nick says:
      24 Nov24 November 12:45

      For my trip all flights both directions were available for £0 extra that’s why I jumped on an 0850 departure 1815 return time!

      • Mike says:
        24 Nov24 November 13:05

        Thanks Nick. I’ve just had another look at the flights again and I’ve managed to get better flight times / connections, albeit it’s more than I wanted to spend. Club Europe, good flights, central hotel but will pay with the BA pp card and activate the £100 saving via BA (offer expires today)

        • Nick says:
          24 Nov24 November 14:36

          Bigger too trigger happy as I had visions of the the deal going. Oh well managed to use the BA Amex offer of £100 off but then again as we’ve all now dropped back to blue by flying elsewhere seat selection at £22 per person per sector is a bit much with a 3 year old. Obviously under 2 the whole family had free seat selection at the time of booking. Not much I can do with that I guess?

        • the real harry says:
          26 Nov26 November 18:23

          with a 3YO you’ll sit together free of charge anyway

        • the real harry says:
          26 Nov26 November 18:25

          OK just use the free seat selection trick

  • Rob says:
    24 Nov24 November 13:09

    The fares were up but I was given the full list of routes, conditions etc which was embargoed. BA always drops in the fares before the official announcement because it takes time.

    If you want to be taken seriously you need to play by the rules 🙂

    • James says:
      24 Nov24 November 14:36

      Rob, you have to be the most condescending man ever. Always making snide comments.

      PS I do like your site though so ill continue to read it.

      • Bran says:
        24 Nov24 November 15:20

        Harsh, James.

      • Rob says:
        24 Nov24 November 16:18

        It was a serious point. If I publish stuff which BA has specifically asked me to hold back, I won’t get any advance info from them next time.

        As it was, I had a full article ready to go for 8.30 inc all the BA Holidays packages.

        As I spent all morning on a train (see Instagram) there would have been nothing up at all until at least 2pm had I not been given the details in advance.

      • James says:
        24 Nov24 November 17:27

        Hi Mikee,

        I didnt miss the smiley, but putting a smiley on the end of a condescending comment does not make it right, very passive aggressive.

        I agree that Rob did the right thing, and I have no issue with the message, i just feel there have been a few replys from Rob that have been unnecessary rude or patronising.

        I also said I enjoy Robs work, I find it very useful and as I said, I will continue to read, I just felt something needed to be said. Dont want old Rob getting too big for his boots…. 😉

        James

      • HIDeHi says:
        24 Nov24 November 18:03

        Personally didn’t read Rob’s post as condescending. In fairness he was essentially being criticised by the original post so he had a right to defend himself.

        Anyway let’s try to do better than the rest of the internet and at least try to keep things civil

      • Andrew says:
        24 Nov24 November 19:04

        How rude – if you don’t like it there’s plenty of other places to go. Try Flyertalk – you might fit in well there.

      • BradSmith says:
        24 Nov24 November 22:41

        “Always making snide comments”. Really? That’s way too harsh and ungrateful.

        • Rob says:
          24 Nov24 November 23:12

          What is often missed is context to a comment. It is often that I know the person or have a direct email relationship with them and a comment is actually a sly joke to an acquaintance or has an underlying meaning only they understand.

          Note that I spend FAR more time writing constructive, non sarky, emails to readers who want advice than I spend writing articles. A high profile miles blogger I met recently told me he deletes every email he gets from his readers. If I did that I wouldn’t have had to hire Anika.

        • the real harry says:
          26 Nov26 November 18:29

          you’re joking

          you need to cut that right back

          I never sent you an email in my life (I think!) – no need to consider that a big deal if you ignore those people

          referrals aside

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